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Topic: Environment

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Crude Oil: Republicans Have Big Oil in Their DNA
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The two species have a natural affinity for each other. It's likely they sprang from the same genetic pool. By Jim Hightower \| Alternet Jun 30, 2010 If scientists were to compare the DNA of Republican congress-critters and of oil corporations, I'll bet they'd find that they match perfectly. After all, the two species have identical political instincts and seem to have a natural affinity for each other -- so I'm pretty sure they sprang from the same genetic pool.
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Crude Oil: BP Wants YOU to Solve The Deepwater Horizon Crisis
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	200,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico by Sarah Parsons \| May 11, 2010 Since the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20th, the rig's been spewing more than 200,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Environment: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save The World
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Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium -- and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world. Mushrooms to clean up oil spills? To transform toxic Farm Run Off? To combat pox viruses and the Flu? Yes, yes, and yes according to Paul Stamets in this 18 minute talk -- and there is more…
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Global Warming: Climate Talks on Verge of Collapse in Final Hours
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	A leaked UN documents is among a number of news items as the climate talks reach the home-stretch By Nick Berning \| Open Left December 18, 2009 There's a somber mood in Copenhagen on the last day of climate negotiations, with prospects for a strong and fair agreement feeling further and further out of reach.
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Global Warming: How The World Works
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Swiss Re-scue By Andrew Leonard \| Salon.com April 12, 2008 Two long plane flights this past weekend gave me the chance to read Eugene Linden's excellent "Winds of Change," a convincing (and depressing) investigation of how rapid climate change has played a significant role in the fall of several civilizations in human history.
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Environment: A Big Win Against Corporate Control of Water
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	In the battle over whether the people or corporations should control public water, residents of Stockton, Calif., won a huge victory over a multinational but other localities remain threatened. By Megan Tady \| In These Times August 4, 2007 Bill Lokyo never expected to find himself embroiled in a six-year battle over water with a multinational corporation and city officials in Stockton, Calif."We all thought this would only be a one-year fight," Lokyo says.
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Global Warming: 'Why Should We Germans Save The World Alone?'
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Germany in its capacity as president of the European Union and G8 is leading a drive to slash CO2 emissions. SPIEGEL Int'l \| Mar 5, 2007 ...But German media commentators want to know why their country should take the leading role while the world's biggest polluters, the United States and China, stand idly by.
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Environment: Global ecosystems 'face collapse'
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	Current global consumption levels could result in a large-scale ecosystem collapse by the middle of the century, environmental group WWF has warned. By BBC NEWS \| Oct 24, 2006 The group's biannual Living Planet Report said the natural world was being degraded "at a rate unprecedented in human history". Terrestrial species had declined by 31% between 1970-2003, the findings showed.
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Global Warming: The End of Eden
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James Lovelock Says This Time We've Pushed the Earth Too Far. By Michael Powell \|Washington Post Sep 2, 2006 ST. GILES-ON-THE-HEATH, England Through a deep and tangled wood lies a glade so lovely and wet and lush as to call to mind a hobbit's sanctuary. A lichen-covered statue rises in a garden of native grasses, and a misting rain drips off a slate roof. At the yard's edge a plump muskrat waddles into the brush. "Hello!"
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Global Warming: U.S. blocked hurricane report, journal says
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	Nature: Commerce official withheld panel finding on global warming The Associated Press \| Sept 27, 2006 WASHINGTON - A government agency blocked release of a report that suggests global warming is contributing to the frequency and strength of hurricanes, the journal Nature reported Tuesday.
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